Important people don't multitask
This
year, I decided to do something radical that I hadn’t done for almost a decade.
I took a proper holiday. I disconnected myself from work altogether. I didn’t
open any work messages. I spent time reading, walking, looking at the sea — and
sometimes getting into it — while I thought about not much at all. When I
returned to work and reacquainted myself with email, it was perfectly
straightforward. I deleted almost all of them unread, responding only to the
things that looked interesting. Far from feeling overwhelmed, I felt a certain
excitement in the sudden immersion in work. It was a new-shoes and sharp-pencil
sort of feeling that used to go with the beginning of a school term.
Over
the past week it has started to dawn on me that my radical action was not
radical at all. I was merely following the latest fashion.
Lucy Kellaway, FT
I
have noticed during my career that the really important people are not always
online and do one thing with 100% focus. The people that multitask sometimes
don’t go very far ahead. Perhaps it’s a wrong impression but it’s my
experience.
People that multitask are sacrificing Focus for some surprise. It's a big cost.
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Concordo, por acaso estou lendo um livro de uma neuro cientista que fala nosso cérebro não funciona no modo multitask e que quando fazemos 2 coisas ao mesmo tempo, fazemos 2 coisas mal feitas, problema sério q está afetando essa nova geração..
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